(PhysOrg.com) -- Decades of whaling and fishing for the largest species have altered the ability of oceans to store and sequester carbon, according to a team of marine researchers from the University of Maine, the University ...

Space & Earth - Environment

Sep 06, 2010 4.1 / 5 (14) 3 |

Sudden shifts in complex systems such as the climate, financial markets, ecosystems and even the human body can be preceded by surprisingly comparable warning signals. It is crucial to be able to predict ...

Other Sciences - Mathematics

Oct 22, 2012 5 / 5 (6) 4

(Phys.org)—Is fishing alone responsible for stock collapses, or are there other dominant factors? Determining the causes driving changes in complex networks such as ecosystems is especially challenging. ...

Biology - Ecology

Sep 28, 2012 4.8 / 5 (6) 9 |

(Phys.org) —Nature is a lot more resilient than we sometimes think. A study by Rutgers marine scientists published recently in Science shows that species of fish that have been overfished for decades can of ...

Biology - Ecology

Apr 18, 2013 5 / 5 (5) 1 |

(PhysOrg.com) -- Some Canadian rivers are at risk of drying up as impacts of climate change intersect with growing water demand from the country's cities, industries and agriculture, a new WWF report has found.

Space & Earth - Environment

Oct 15, 2009 3 / 5 (8) 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- For the first time, an earthquake was recorded live in Devils Hole, home to the critically endangered pupfish species. The footage is educating scientists on how struggling species react to ...

Biology - Plants & Animals

May 11, 2010 4.6 / 5 (5) 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- For decades there has been a controversy about whales eating fish in the tropics. The “whales eat fish” debate has been at the heart of policy decisions about the culling of whales and ...

Space & Earth - Environment

Feb 16, 2009 3.7 / 5 (6) 2

The Atlantic cod has, for many centuries, sustained major fisheries on both sides of the Atlantic. However, the North American fisheries have now largely collapsed. A new paper in the open-access, peer-reviewed journal PLoS ON ...

Biology - Ecology

May 27, 2009 5 / 5 (4) 0

A day at the beach in Wisconsin's North Woods didn't used to go like this. Candy Dailey spent a Fourth of July holiday splashing with grandkids on the sandy shore of Lake Metonga when she felt a nasty sting on her foot.

Biology - Ecology

Nov 09, 2009 5 / 5 (4) 1

The pages of ecological history are filled with woeful tales of destruction from non-native species -- organisms that originated elsewhere.

Biology - Ecology

Aug 30, 2011 4 / 5 (5) 12

The United States issued a ruling on Friday saying that five world populations of loggerhead sea turtles are endangered species but four are only "threatened."

Biology - Ecology

Sep 16, 2011 5 / 5 (4) 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- What constitutes fish food is a matter of debate. A high-profile study a few years ago suggested that fish get almost 50 percent of their carbon from trees and leaves, evidence for a very ...

Biology - Ecology

Nov 24, 2009 4.5 / 5 (4) 0

For 30 years, two General Electric facilities released about 1.3 million pounds of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) into New York's Hudson River, devastating and contaminating fish populations. Some 50 years ...

Space & Earth - Environment

Feb 17, 2011 4 / 5 (4) 1 |

The two most important recreational fisheries off Southern California have collapsed, according to a new study led by a researcher from Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego.

Biology - Ecology

Sep 26, 2011 4 / 5 (4) 1

Children of baby boomers aren't the only ones who have taken to setting up home far from where their parents live. A new study published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences documents how larval ...

Biology - Ecology

Mar 25, 2009 5 / 5 (3) 0